Fantasy Film Post 9/11

By Frances Pheasant-Kelly

Book Overview

Examining a range of fantasy films released in the past decade, Pheasant-Kelly looks at why these films are meaningful to current audiences. The imagery and themes reflecting 9/11, millennial anxieties, and environmental disasters have furthered fantasy's rise to dominance as they allow viewers to work through traumatic memories of these issues.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230392121
• ISBN13: 9780230392120
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"